How Even Highly-Targeted Censorship Can Lead To Overblocking
As the battle rages over SOPA and PIPA, censorship is very much on people's minds. But there are many different kinds of censorship, operating at different levels of precision. For example, while some...
View ArticleAs UK Government Considers Opt-Out Porn Censorship, Report Already Finds...
A few weeks ago, we noted the UK government was considering plans to bring in an opt-out form of censorship, in what would amount to a kind of porn license, and that such an approach runs the risk of...
View ArticleIndian ISP Penalized For 'Overblocking' In Obeying Court Order To Try To Stop...
We've written a couple of times about Indian ISPs overblocking websites in response to vague court orders to try to prevent copyright infringement of a particular film. The responses seemed like...
View ArticleAustralia Sets New Overblocking Record: Aims For One Site, Takes Down 250,000
Overblocking is not a new problem -- over two years ago, Techdirt wrote about an instance where Homeland Security took down 84,000 innocent sites at a stroke -- so you might have thought that those...
View ArticleMassive Overblocking Hits Hundreds Of UK Sites
Two years ago, Techdirt reported on a very troubling ruling in the UK courts that BT had to block access to the Usenet service provider Newzbin2. At the time, many feared that this would be the thin...
View ArticleHow Even Highly-Targeted Censorship Can Lead To Overblocking
As the battle rages over SOPA and PIPA, censorship is very much on people's minds. But there are many different kinds of censorship, operating at different levels of precision. For example, while some...
View ArticleAs UK Government Considers Opt-Out Porn Censorship, Report Already Finds...
A few weeks ago, we noted the UK government was considering plans to bring in an opt-out form of censorship, in what would amount to a kind of porn license, and that such an approach runs the risk of...
View ArticleIndian ISP Penalized For 'Overblocking' In Obeying Court Order To Try To Stop...
We've written a couple of times about Indian ISPs overblocking websites in response to vague court orders to try to prevent copyright infringement of a particular film. The responses seemed like...
View ArticleAustralia Sets New Overblocking Record: Aims For One Site, Takes Down 250,000
Overblocking is not a new problem -- over two years ago, Techdirt wrote about an instance where Homeland Security took down 84,000 innocent sites at a stroke -- so you might have thought that those...
View ArticleMassive Overblocking Hits Hundreds Of UK Sites
Two years ago, Techdirt reported on a very troubling ruling in the UK courts that BT had to block access to the Usenet service provider Newzbin2. At the time, many feared that this would be the thin...
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